NAWA Katsuo, Associate Professor

Biography

NAWA Katsuo is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology. He received his B.A. (1990), M.A. (1992), and Ph.D. (1999) from the University of Tokyo. Before joining the Institute in 2000, he was a research fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He was also a research scholar at the Research Centre of Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1992-95) and a visiting fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2002-03).  Based on his anthropological fieldwork in Far Western Nepal, he has written extensively on inter-ethnic and inter-caste relations, the sococultural transformation and ritual process, and language use and its objectification. His research interests include ethnohistory of a Himalayan village,  politics and poetics of ethnic movement, and language ideologies and translation.

His major publication is Nepal, Byans oyobi Shuhen Chiiki niokeru Girei to Shakai Hanchu ni kansuru Minzokushiteki Kenkyu: Mouhitotu no ‘Kindai’ no Fuchi (An Ethnographic Study on Rituals and Social Categories of Byans, Nepal and Adjacent Regions: Another Constellation of 'Modernity') (Sangensha, 2002) which won the 30th Shibusawa prizes from he Shibusawa Fund for Ethnological Studies (Shibusawa Minzokugaku Shinko Kikin) in 2004. He also co-edited (with Hiroshi Ishii and David N. Gellner) two volumes of books, Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 1, and Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2 (Manohar, 2007).

 

The Memoirs of Institute of Oriental Culture and The Monograph Series of the Institute of Oriental Culture are abbreviated in this section as MIOC and MSIOC.

Selected Publication

  • Katsuo Nawa, "Minzoku-shi, bunka, tagengo shakai: Hoku-Bei 'Gengo-jinrui-gaku' ni kansuru imada goku yobi-teki na memorandamu (Ethnography, Culture, and Multilingual Society: A Preliminary Memorandum on North American "Linguistic Anthropology"),"Kotoba to shakai: ta-gengo shakai kenkyu no.10, 2007.6.30, Tokyo, Sangensha, pp. 41-67.
  • Hiroshi Ishii, David N. Gellner and Katsuo Nawa eds., Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 1, (Japanese Studies on South Asia No.6), 2007, Delhi, Manohar, xvii+543pp.
  • Hiroshi Ishii, David N. Gellner and Katsuo Nawa eds., Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2, (Japanese Studies on South Asia No.7), 2007, Delhi, Manohar, xvi+520pp.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Some Unintended Consequences of Ritual Change: The Case of Funerals in Chhangru, Byans, Far Western Nepal," Hiroshi Ishii, David N. Gellner and Katsuo Nawa eds., Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2, (Japanese Studies on South Asia No.7), 2007, Delhi, Manohar, pp. 263-288.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Igirisu 'Shakai' Jinrui-gaku no naijitsu o megutte: 2002-3 nen no Kenburijji o rei ni (On the State of British 'Social' Anthropology: in Cambridge 2002-2003, for example),"Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsu-kan kenkyu houkoku (Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology),31, no.1, 2006, Suita, National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 87-115.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Yamamichi aruki to fukei shashin: Neparu, Byansu ni okeru shakai kukan to sono hen'yo ni kansuru shironRyoko Nishii and Shigeharu Tanabe eds., Shakai kukan no Jinrui-gaku: Materiariti, shutai, modaniti 2006, Kyoto, Sekai Shisosha, pp. 150-174.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Language Situation and 'Mother Tongue' in Byans, Far Western Nepal," Studies in Nepali History and Society, 9, no.2, 2004.12, Kathmandu, Mandala Book Point, pp. 261-291.
  • Katsuo Nawa, Neparu, Byansu oyobi shuhen chiiki ni okeru girei to shakai hanchu ni kansuru Minzoku-shi-teki kenkyu: mo hitotsu no 'Kindai' no fuchi (An Ethnographic Study on Rituals and Social Categories of Byans, Nepal and Adjacent Regions: Another Constellation of 'Modernity'),2002, Tokyo, Sangensha, xliii+453pp.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Ethnic Categories and their Usages in Byans, Far Western Nepal," European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 18, no.1, 2000, Heidelberg, Dept. of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, pp. 36-57.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Neparu, Byansu ni okeru 'bogo' o meguru sho-mondai: gengo-mei no yoho to shiji taisho o megutte (Problems of Mother Tongue in Byans, Far Western Nepal: On Usages of Language Name and Referent),"Kotoba to shakai (Language and society),4, 2000, Tokyo, Sangensha.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Neparu, Byansu ni okeru kamigami no saishi (Worship of Deities in Byans, Far-Western Nepal),"Minami-Ajia kenkyu (Journal of the Japanese Associatoin for South Asian Studies),10, 1998, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, pp. 32-55.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Neparu, Byansu ni okeru minzoku sho-hanchu to sono yoho (Rang, Sauka, or Byansi? Ethnic Categories and their Usages in Byans, Far-Western Nepal),"Minzoku-gaku kenkyu (The Japanese Journal of Ethnology),61, no.4, 1997, Tokyo, Japanese Society of Ethnology, pp. 546-564.
  • Katsuo Nawa, "Minzoku-ron no hatten no tame ni: minzoku no kijutsu to bunseki ni kansuru riron-teki kosatsu (Toward the Theory of Ethnos: On Description and Analysis of Nations and Ethnic Groups),"Minzoku-gaku kenkyu (The Japanese Journal of Ethnology),57, no.3, 1992, Tokyo, Japanese Society of Ethnology, pp. 297-317.